EPPO Global Database

Macrohomotoma gladiata(MAHOGL)

Distribution details in Malta

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2020: Present, widespread
First recorded in: 2014
Pest status declared by NPPO: Present, only in some parts of the member state concerned (2017-05)
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2017/157) : first found in October 2016 on Ficus atrocarpae trees in the locality of Attard.
References
* Mifsud D (2020) The jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera : Psylloidea) of the Maltese Islands. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Malta, 11, 103-117.
-------observed wherever cultivated Ficus microcarpa trees occur

* NPPO of Malta (2017-05).